We continue of discussion ot Transits with the study of Sylvia Plath's life but now we add the additional complication of derivations. Using the chart of her husband, Ted Hughes, also a well known and distinguished poet in his own right, we derivate the various life events already discussed for Sylvia, but taking the Transits from the solar and lunar returns of Ted Hughes. Our study begins with a delineation of this chart followed by the study of his transits in relations to her.

As we did in the previous weeks, we build our deductions stressing the need to detect two factors in any Transit. First, we want to know its quantitative impact and then its timing, or in other words, the strength and duration of its impact on the native.

How this can be determined is the focus of this lesson but we begin the lesson with a discussion on what is meant by what Morin calls, "concurrent causes", that is those factors other than Transits that can account for an event over and above a "mere transit".

As a technique, Transits alone are not important enough to account for major events. There must be other cooperating factors, viz: other forecasting techniques, that confirm and reinforce your speculation of an event detected by a transit. These other corroborating factors are Primary Directions and Solar Revolutions. To put Transits in context, we give a brief overview of what is meant by a Primary Direction, and then discuss those primaries that were in force at the untimely death of Sylvia Plath.

Content for this Quarter as well as the following quarter, Quarter 6 are based on Books 23 and 24 of Morin's Astrologia Gallica.

Both of these volumes are newly translated from the Latin by James Holden and are available now from the AFA bookstore or Astroamerica.com.

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